What are the "Social Issues in Computing"?

With computing influencing over 50% of the nearly $80 Trillion in Global GDP, should you be concerned about computing social issues?

What are the questions, controversies, and answers surrounding computing’s impact on: Users; Privacy; Systems, Models and Simulations; Planning; Security; Employment; Global Power Shifts; Professionalization and Responsibility; Developing Countries; the Political Process; Antitrust actions; Values; …the issues, domains are endless and growing?

What are your views, your burning passions and how do they compare with the pioneers below?

These questions and more were anticipated by the famed scientists, Kelly Gotlieb and Allan Borodin. With 2013 being the 40th anniversary of the publication of their seminal book, “Social Issues in Computing,” a few people were invited to contribute articles for the University of Toronto’s anniversary celebration blog commenting on this pioneering work. Here are the initial entries: http://tinyurl.com/2013SocialIssues

Authors (Kelly) Gotlieb and (Allan) Borodin interviewed

Vint Cerf (Internet inventor) “Social Issues in Computing And The Internet”

John Leslie King, W.W. Bishop Professor of Information, University of Michigan, “Privacy: It’s Harder Than We Thought”

William H. Dutton, Professor of Internet Studies, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, “The Enduring Social Issues in Computing”

Stephen Ibaraki, Founder and Chair, IFIP IP3 Global Industry Council (part 1 of three articles), “ICT E-Skills and Professionalism in 2013”